EDGEWATER — Bareburger was born in a closet-sized kitchen in a Brooklyn music club.

Now, it's a burger chain with more than a dozen restaurants set to open its first New Jersey locations this year in Edgewater and Hoboken.

Eurepides Pelekanos, the CEO and co-founder of Bareburger, was one of the owners of a music venue in Brooklyn called Sputnik. In 2002, he and his partners got the idea to sell organic burgers and snacks to guests.

It caught on. Soon people were coming to Sputnik for the food, not the music.

So Pelekanos and his partners decided to build a whole restaurant around the idea of servic organic, locally sourced comfort food. In 2009, the first Bareburger restaurant opened in Astoria, Queens, almost four years ago to the day.

And by late September, Pelekanos expects to open the New Jersey locations, the 14th and 15th Bareburgers. The Edgewater location will be in the Promenade, right on the Hudson River, while the Hoboken restaurant will be on Fifth and Washington streets.

"There's plenty of young families in Hoboken and our demographic is there," Pelekanos said.